| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Mansion by Henry van Dyke: had his
legal residence for purposes of taxation.
This last was perhaps the most carefully planned of all the
Weightman Charities. He desired to win the confidence and
support of
his rural neighbors. It had pleased him much when the local
newspaper
had spoken of him as an ideal citizen and the logical candidate
for
the Governorship of the State; but upon the whole it seemed to
him
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Camille by Alexandre Dumas: "Never."
I, too, had not seen Armand again. I was beginning to ask myself
if, when he had come to see me, the recent news of Marguerite's
death had not exaggerated his former love, and consequently his
sorrow, and I said to myself that perhaps he had already
forgotten the dead woman, and along with her his promise to come
and see me again. This supposition would have seemed probable
enough in most instances, but in Armand's despair there had been
an accent of real sincerity, and, going from one extreme to
another, I imagined that distress had brought on an illness, and
that my not seeing him was explained by the fact that he was ill,
Camille |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from St. Ives by Robert Louis Stevenson: to do it if I could but improvise a companion. Hard by Merchiston
I was so fortunate as to observe a bulky gentleman in broadcloth
and gaiters, stooping with his head almost between his knees,
before a stone wall. Seizing occasion by the forelock, I drew up
as I came alongside and inquired what he had found to interest him.
He turned upon me a countenance not much less broad than his back.
'Why, sir,' he replied, 'I was even marvelling at my own
indefeasible stupeedity: that I should walk this way every week of
my life, weather permitting, and should never before have NOTTICED
that stone,' touching it at the same time with a goodly oak staff.
I followed the indication. The stone, which had been built
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